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Aqua Toffana

Perhaps the most notorious poisoner of the seventeenth century was an Italian woman named Madame Giulia Toffana. She invented an arsenical solution in 1690, called Aqua Toffana , which she sold in phials bearing the representation of a saint, usually Saint Nicholas of Bari (Bari was a town whose water was supposed to have had healing properties). The phials were sold to women under the pretence that Aqua Toffana was good for a woman s complexion (as arsenic is), but Toffana also sold her solution to women who wanted to rid themselves of their husbands. It was apparently colorless, tasteless, and miscible with wine, and therefore very easy to administer. Toffana is said to have been responsible for as many as 600 murders and for this she was executed in Naples in 1709. However, Toffana had... [Pg.1851]


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